Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Myortvye dushi
🎞️ Movie 388 min RU
โ˜… 7.6 /10 1984

In the Russian Empire, before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, landowners were entitled to own serfs to farm their land. Serfs were for most purposes considered the property of the landowner, and could be bought, sold or mortgaged, as any other chattel. To count serfs (and people in general), the measure word "soul" was used: e.g., "six souls of serfs". The plot of the novel relies on "dead souls" (i.e., "dead serfs") which are still accounted for in property registers. On another level, the title refers to the "dead souls" of Gogol's characters, all of which visualise different aspects of poshlost (an untranslatable Russian word which is perhaps best rendered as "self-satisfied inferiority", moral and spiritual, with overtones of middle-class pretentiousness, fake significance and philistinism).

Cast

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Evgeniy Maksimenko
Aleksandr Trofimov
Aleksandr Trofimov
avtor Nikolay Gogol
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Pavel Chichikov
Yuriy Bogatyryov
Yuriy Bogatyryov
Manilov
Larisa Udovichenko
Larisa Udovichenko
Manilova
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Vitaliy Shapovalov
Nozdrev
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
Sobakevich
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Aleksey Zaytsev
Selifan
Vsevolod Sanaev
Vsevolod Sanaev
Ivan Grigoryevich - predsedatel palaty
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Viktor Shulyakovsky
Gubernator